Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Query Letters The query letter is one of the most critical steps in landing a literary agent and a publisher. In this workshop we will discuss tactics for writing successful query letters. Participants will have the opportunity to submit a query letter for critique. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 203.227.3250 OR […]
Allison Dickens
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Allison H. Dickens was a Senior Editor at the Penguin and Random House Publishing Groups. She co-created the XYZ line of books for twenty-somethings while at Ballantine/Random House, and oversaw the Ballantine Reader's Circle program. In 2008 she left full-time publishing for a more family friendly schedule as a freelance editor. She has also worked in magazine publishing and for an independent publisher.Hanging In There With Your Novel or Memoir Manuscript MS – B301W20
In this master-level course, you will have the opportunity to share 20-25 page increments of your work via email three to four times during the course of the term, for a minimum total of 60-75 pages reviewed and discussed. You will receive in-depth critiques during class time that you can then apply to your manuscript […]
FILLED – Breaking the Rules – B207F19
What’s more fun than breaking the rules? In this course, we will examine where the rules for good writing, (so often touted in writing workshops), came from, why they exist, and famous examples of books that break them. We will take a look at an example of a work that breaks the rules beautifully. After […]
FILLED – Hanging In There With Your Novel or Memoir Manuscript MS – B301F19
In this master-level course, you will have the opportunity to share 20-25 page increments of your work via email three to four times during the course of the term, for a minimum total of 60-75 pages reviewed and discussed. You will receive in-depth critiques during class time that you can then apply to your manuscript […]